Media Matters looks back at Fox Nation's first year follies

Here are just a few of the things we've learned from Fox Nation in the last year:

Perpetuating right-wing talking points is part of being "a forum for Americans to speak out"

Fox Nation has promoted the falsehood that reconciliation is the "nuclear option. From Fox Nation's homepage:

[3/1/10]

Fox Nation joined other conservative outlets in suggesting that including GOP health care ideas was a gimmick. From Fox Nation's homepage:

[3/2/10]

Promoting the Tea Parties is acceptable activism for a news site

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From Fox Nation's homepage:

[10/13/09]

It's OK to post doctored photos

Discussing President Obama's recent medical check-up, which reportedly noted that Obama "has not kicked the smoking habit," Fox Nation posted a doctored photo of Obama with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. As the Museum of Hoaxes notes, the photo is a "fake" spread during the 2008 campaign:

[3/1/10]

As Think Progress noted, during the 2006 elections, the Ohio Republican Party included the following doctored "2004 AP photo" of Al Franken - now a Senator from Minnesota -- in a press release attacking then-Senate candidate Sherrod Brown (D) and Franken, who was campaigning for Brown at the time:

[7/2/09]

Partisan attacks can be disguised as questions

Under the headline "Is Harry Reid Losing It?" Fox Nation linked to a March 5 Hot Air blog post that grossly distorted video of Sen. Harry Reid saying it is "good" news that the economy lost only 36,000 jobs in February -- an assessment many economists agree with. The video cut out Reid's accurate explanation that the "good" news was that unemployment and job losses were lower than economists had expected:

Linking to a video of radio host Mark Levin calling for the expulsion of Rep. Louise Slaughter because of her exploration of the possibility of using the self-executing rule to pass health care reform, Fox Nation asked, "Should Rep. Slaughter Be Expelled From Congress?":